Delicious and aromatic watermelon lemonade

In the summer I want to drink somethingrefreshing, delicious, and most importantly, useful, so that the drink was made only from natural ingredients. Watermelon lemonade, the recipe of which we will consider, is easy to prepare. From such a drink you just will have only good impressions.

What do you need for cooking?

Watermelon lemonade is just a salvation from the heat. This drink is prepared exclusively from natural ingredients.

Ingredients that will be required (resulting in a total of 2.5 liters of lemonade):

• one kilogram of juicy ripe watermelon;
• three to four whole lemon (medium-sized) or lime;
• 150 grams of mint (we will use it separately for mint ice and separately for lemonade);
• 150-200 grams of sugar (you can liquid honey, even tastier);
• cold water (you can take a soda, too good to get);
• ice;
• five or six strawberries (on request and taste).

Step One: Ice

Before you make a home-made watermelon lemonade,prepare the mint ice. Take molds for ice, finely cut mint, if the leaves are small, then you can put them whole into molds. Of course, it is better if the latter will be rubber, because of them ice is better to be pulled out. You can also cut fruit, such as strawberries, but this is optional. Next, we pour everything over with water and send it to the freezer for a couple of hours.

Step two: extract the pulp

While the mint-strawberry ice reaches the rightin the freezer, we need to extract the flesh from the berry. To do this, cut the watermelon in half. Then we separate the pulp from the peel. Next, its mode on the slices, and then on the squares. After that, we extract all the bones from them. We throw it all in a blender and whisk it up to a homogeneous consistency.

If there is no blender, then you can usemixer or just to pound the flesh with something, for example a crush or just a wooden spoon. After that, you have to pass the watermelon juice through a fine sieve. This is necessary in order to obtain a homogeneous mass. If you do not strain the pulp, the consistency of our lemonade will look like smoothie, but it depends on your preferences.

Step three: add the lemon

For the next step, we need five or sixmedium-sized lemons. So, first we rub the zest of all citrus with a special grater. Then add the watermelon juice. We leave lemons without peel, we will squeeze them out later through the juicer. Before doing this, you should clean the citrus from all the bones (they obviously are not needed in the drink). Freshly squeezed lemon juice is added to the watermelon lemonade. After we mixed these two ingredients, you can once again whip the drink with a blender. Then you can proceed to the next stage.

Step Four: sweet pleasure

Next, we need to make sugar syrup. How to do it? To do this, take five to six tablespoons of sugar, pour water and put on the stove about a minute for four or five, until the liquid boils. After that, we send the syrup to the refrigerator. When it cools, you can add watermelon juice to it. Also, the syrup can be replaced with sugar or honey (also to taste).

Step Five: Mix

If you have not forgotten, the freezer is frozenmint-strawberry ice. It's time to get it. Add watermelon juice to the mint-strawberry ice at your discretion. After that, we need to dilute it with cold water. You can take slightly soda water or even a drink "Sprite". This you just do not spoil your watermelon lemonade! Water is added as much as the juice itself. Although, of course, it is better that the last component was more than water.

Step Six: Decoration

Here you have practically and ready a watermelon lemonade, inhome made. The last thing left is the decoration of the drink. After all, the very first impression of him depends on the appearance of the cocktail, as well as on the appetite with which you and your guests will drink it. To decorate this wonderful summer and cool watermelon lemonade we will be lemon wedges and mint. We'll start with the glass. First, let's cut off the lemon slice, make a small incision on it and hold this slice around the edges of the glass. After that, we need to pour a bit of sugar into a flat plate. Then dipped the edges of the glass into it. Then carefully pour the watermelon lemonade and decorate it with mint. Thanks to the smeared edges, when you drink a fragrant drink, you will still feel a light taste of lemon with sugar.

This will give a watermelon lemonade the right taste. He will not be too cloying, but he will not be sour. That's all, now you can safely serve to the table, to please your guests with a delicious and fragrant watermelon lemonade.

A small conclusion

Now you know how to make a delicious soft drink from a big berry. It is prepared fairly simply, so anyone should cope without problems. Good luck!